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Chapter 7 - after it

After Mira heard Stal's scream, she turned to look behind her ,

" What the hell is happening with you, Stal?! Do you want me to go crazy or what?!! We already know that this is Randio ."

Taken aback by Mira's words , Stal felt the ground under his feet rising . He got curious , so he turned around checking all directions to see what was happening . When his eyes spotted Randio , he saw him stooping , his hands were in the ground trying to pull the cement out .

After some attempts , Randio managed to do so ; he lifted the ground with whoever was on it for a distance of 500 meters . Mira , Stal , everything next to them , and the people behind Stal , too , were thrown , all of that by lifting the cement off onto the air . As a result of that powerful throw , people were scattered into distant places and all got smashed except for Mira and Stal .

Mira and Stal were flying in the air as if there was no gravity . Mira rushed forward in the air , heading towards Randio ; she extended her fist forward and flames gathered around her hands . For each meter taken by Mira forward , the heat and size of the fire increased but after she reached halfway between her and Randio , the size of the flames shrank , still the temperature was increasing even more every time they shrink . When Mira reached a distance of one meter between her and Randio , the fire was like a small ball , the size of a tennis ball .

Randio noticed Mira getting closer at full speed while she was laughing as if she enjoyed what she was doing . He could've evaded her shot , but he didn't move an inch .

Randio got hit in the middle of his face . The hit caused a huge explosion , the fire was expanding with the radius of the blast which was almost like that of a nuclear bomb . Within just a few moments , the fire extended till it reached each and every inch of New York . The whole city became ashes with everything in it ; there were no ruins or anything , just only ashes , except for Stal , Mira and Randio who weren't harmed .

Mira landed on the ground which was still like lava . She looked at Randio seriously and said ,

" You can't catch Stal as long I'm here , and I think that I should kill you to make sure of that . Do you have any final wish? "

After that , everyone heard a sharp voice coming from an unknown place as if it was coming from a speaker ,

" You have to be the one to face Randio , Stal . And Mira, you have to leave it to Stal ."

The voice disappeared and so did Randio , and Mira flew in the air .

The ashes of the people that were just killed gathered once again to create three bodies of people Stal didn't know . That was the first time he saw them , but he know their names exactly like what happened with Mira . Those three guys flew to the sky and stopping next to Mira , whereas Stal landed to the ground beyond his control . He looked up at the sky to see them , then heard all of them talking in one voice ,

" He is right . he can't be wrong about you . You must be the one to face Randio , that's why you should wake up ."

Stal woke up from his sleep shocked ; he cannot remember what shocked him .

After that he checked the place around him and noticed that he was locked in a dark box that smelled like trash . He tried opening the box and succeeded ; he got his head out of the box just to find himself in a trash box at an alley ,

" What the hell am I doing here ?!"

He started to remember the events after he got out of the box , and went to the street to find where he is so he can go back to the supermarket.

'That's right . All of a sudden , I woke up from my sleep and walked to that strange building . That building was completely white.... No, it wasn't . It was a two-story building : the upper floor was orange, and the lower floor was yellow . Something like teeth was surrounding the upper floor from all sides . There were only five windows on the upper floor although it was spacious . Whereas the first floor had no windows nor doors , and there was a staircase on the right side leading to the second floor , and a staircase on the left side as well. There was also a staircase in the back that led directly to the roof ; it was green, exactly like the color of the roof of that building . I remember that someone welcomed me when I arrived..... But no... No one welcomed. I went up to the second floor alone , and got to the room from there . The building was empty and there was no one in it . Also , it was closed with shields from the beginning, and opened right after I arrived. As the ground didn't swallow anything in the first place, I stepped in without running and escaping . I knew everything in that building , but I've never been to the back of the building or its roof yet I know its color and shape . The girl didn't call me, I contacted her . I knew the number.'

He was frozen in place at the end of the alley thinking of all of that and his eyes widened in shock . Then he grabbed his head and hit it on the wall to his left . He fell slowly on his knees while his fist was still on the wall .

'Why are my memories distorted and lost like this?! I don't know anything now . Which is real and which is fake ?? How do I remember the building with two different structures at the same time?? What was the girl trying to tell me about David? and How did I fall asleep in just a few seconds? and What happened after I was sleeping? How on earth did I get here?! Aaaah, my head hurts so much . I need to go back and try to figure things out, or those thought will trap me . I need to put everything in order from beginning to end . My head still hurts …, I need to rest a little .'

Then he stood up to go to the street and ask about where he was to figure the way back to the supermarket . In front of the alley , was a wall blocking the front exit, so Stal had to take one of the sides . He went from the right until he reached the end of the alley . Although he could have walked backwards, as the road there was directly linked with the main street, he did not notice that . Upon reaching the end of the alley, he saw a small grocery store on his left, so he entered to ask where he was. Before entering, he focused on the screen inside the store, which was displaying the news ,

"Breaking news. A serial killer returns after disappearing for 20 years . Four human heads of were found, and their names are: David Ponder, Tony Revere, Falcon Sima, and Tom Hardon . The heads were found hanging on the Statue of Liberty, tied with ropes . These heads are believed to be for the husbands of victims of a serial killer named Caster . Caster killed the wives by chopping their heads off , and now he has returned to repeat the same thing to the husbands . This time he left a message on a large piece of paper which was stuck to the statue . The message said that he would cut off the head of anyone who dared to look for him, even if it was the President of the United States himself ."

In the midst of his shock upon hearing the news of David's death and the return of the serial killer, Stal's eyes turned to his reflection on the store's glass . Although it was not very clear, he saw that his white clothes were stained with blood, the same with his hands too . He looked at his shirt to check and started sniffing his clothes and hands to find if it was blood or not .

Stal was able to distinguish the smell , it was the smell of blood. He had not concerned himself with it before because he thought it was the stench of garbage . So , he panicked and went back to hide in the alley where no one could see him .

"The girl in the building told me about a mission regarding David , but then I see the news of his murder. Also, I could only see that my clothes are stained with blood just now!!!"

Then he shoke his head in denial ,

" Damn... Don't overthink it... I have nothing to do with it for sure . The serial killer was the one who murdered him ."

While he was running in the alley, he bumped into someone and fell over to the back, then looked at that person . He saw a man wearing a police uniform, so he looked up a bit to see the man's face . He distinguished that face ; that person in front of him was Randio .